SCO problems with NFS (have you noticed any?)

[IT Manager]

> 
> I plan on using our SCO systems as clients to a NFS server.
> Among the things we plan on doing are NFS makes, keeping an RCS repository,
> and general NFS work.
> 
> Has anyone experienced problems with SCO's NFS implementation?
> 
> -Jim.

I suppose it depends on the versions of your software, and what OS the
server machines will be running.

We ran into trouble trying to use RCS on files which resided on an HP-UX 7.0
filesystem and were NFS mounted to an SCO Unix machine.  On the SCO
machine, RCS would fail when doing checkouts because it could not build the
filename to use in the $SOurce$ keyword.  A quick look at the code showed that
the problem may be linked to RCS trying to use it's own directory reading
routines, which were not prepared to deal with foreign OS directories via NFS.
The same problem happened using HP RCS binaries on files from the SCO machine
NFS mounted to the HP.

If we mounted HP-HP, or SCO-SCO, there was no such trouble.

I don't think our RCS is the latest version, and I haven't put any significant
work into resolving the problem, so there may be an easy solution, or the
trouble may have gone away already.

Make seems to work OK, but you'll need to make sure you're doing some kind
of clock synchronization across your net, or you may get strange results.

Good luck, and please let us know how it worked out.
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James B. O'Connor			jim at tiamat.fsc.com
Ahlstrom Filtration, Inc.		615/821-4022 x. 651